OMNI WAR
WATCH WEDNESDAYS
#254, NOVEMBER 5, 2025. Compiled by Dick Bennett.
Commemorate the End
of the Vietnam War.
Veterans for
Peace Reclaims Armistice Day
Art Hobson. Ukraine Nuclear War Danger
is Disturbingly High.
Greg Mello. Kathryn Bigelow’s New Film on Nuclear War: A House of Dynamite.
“Commemorate the End of the Vietnam War.” With Larry Rottmann.
Nov. 1 to Nov. 12 “Faces from Vietnam”: Exhibition of Photographs at FPL
top floor. Tues. Nov. 11, 5:30,
“Voices from Vietnam”: Film and discussion.
Wed., Nov. 12, 6:00, “A Different Vietnam War.” Narratives of war presented by veterans
Larry Rottmann, Tim Burrows, and Eli Redstone.
With live music.
More: Go to
faylib.org/events
Veteran of the
Vietnam War, Larry Rottman revisited the country 23 times when he took the
photos of the exhibition “Faces from Vietnam.”
Another of his achievements is co-editing the excellent Winning
Hearts and Minds: War Poems by Vietnam Veterans, co-edited by Jan Barry and
Basil Paquet (1972). (Not in Mullins;
try Dickson St. Books.]
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VETERANS
FOR PEACE Reclaim Armistice Day 2025 Until Never
Again Means Never Again for Anyone |
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From
Erasure to Resistance In
the United States, that meaning was later erased. In 1954
Congress renamed it Veterans Day, shifting the focus
from ending war to glorifying it. A day of peace became a billboard for
endless wars and the corporations that profit from them. That erasure serves
the same interests that erase truth everywhere—from Palestine to our own
communities. Who
Benefits from Erasure The
beneficiaries are easy to find. The same weapons manufacturers and security
firms arming Israel’s genocide of Palestinians build the surveillance tech
used by ICE and police to terrorize immigrants and poor communities here at
home. The same billion-dollar prison corporations running detention camps
profit from wars and occupations abroad. Militarism overseas and
militarism at home are one system. Every drone strike has its mirror
image in every ICE raid, no-knock warrant, and act of state violence against
Black, Brown, queer, Indigenous, or immigrant lives. We
must resist fascism at home as well as abroad! . . . .
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Art Hobson. “Will the Ukraine War Go Nuclear? The Danger Is Disturbingly High.” NWADG 28 October 2025.
. . . In a recent meeting with
President Trump, Ukrainian President Zelensky asked for U.S. Tomahawk cruise
missiles for deep strikes on Russia. Zelensky came away
empty-handed, declining to comment on Tomahawks because the U.S. “doesn’t want
escalation.”
Trump was right on this crucial decision.
Ukraine already has many missile systems including US-made ATACM
ballistic missiles, UK/French-made Shadow/SCALP ballistic missiles,
Ukrainian-made Neptune anti-ship and land-attack cruise missiles, and two kinds
of short-range ballistic missiles. These are supplemented by many
types of air defense systems. The ATACM missiles have a range of
nearly 200 miles while the Shadow/SCALP missiles have a range of 155
miles. These systems are suitable for tactical use near the front
lines of fighting in Ukraine. It’s worth noting that “ballistic”
means “thrown, like a ball,” while “cruise” means “air-breathing, like an
airplane.”
Tomahawk
is a cruise missile guided to its target by a GPS terrain-matching
system. With a range of 1500 miles, it is a “strategic” weapon meant
to strike at an enemy’s industrial center, rather than a “tactical” or
“battleground” weapon. It’s 500 miles from Kiev to
Moscow. Thus, Ukraine could use Tomahawks to attack Moscow and nearby
military bases. This has dreadful implications. It would
raise this conflict to the level of “strategic warfare” between the homelands
of Ukraine and Russia, with involvement of the U.S. as supplier of the key new
weapons system.
I plugged the question “What might Russia do if Moscow or its air base
are attacked by Tomahawk missiles from Ukraine” into an on-line search engine
and received the following AI response: “While
Russia's specific reaction to a hypothetical attack on its capital and air
bases is uncertain, official doctrine indicates that it could involve a range
of retaliatory measures, including the potential use of nuclear weapons.”.
. . .
These tactical nuclear weapons exchanges could easily decimate one or
more European cities. Such an all-European nuclear exchange would be
difficult to constrain at the “tactical” level of a few kilotons.
Pentagon “war games” research shows that, once the nuclear threshold has
been passed, the exchange is highly likely to escalate to all out strategic
nuclear war. See, for example, Annie Jacoben’s well-informed book
“Nuclear War: A scenario.”
The first strategic forces used would be Russian and U.S. land-based
ICBMs, because these missiles are housed at known locations and could be easily
destroyed in a first strike by the other side. The U.S. has 400 of
these, each packing a 300-kiloton nuclear bomb. Both side’s bomber
forces would be immediately airborne. Both side’s submarine-based
nuclear forces would be launched into the ocean depths where they could safely
remain until “needed” for further retaliation.
Such a nuclear
exchange would decimate most of the northern hemisphere. Although
the southern hemisphere might remain largely undamaged, human existence could
be permanently reduced to medieval or stone age levels.
[For the
full text see “OMNI Ukraine War Anthology #36” to be published soon.]
“A House of
Dynamite,” the
Film: How Real Is It?”
By Greg Mello. Peace
and Planet News (Oct. 29, 2025)
published by Veterans for Peace.
A new film directed by Kathryn Bigelow is a stark reminder of the urgent
need to eliminate nuclear weapons globally.
And much more at peaceandplanetnews.org!
END OMNI WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS #254, NOVEMBER 5, 2025. Compiled by Dick Bennett.
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